"Yes, I was called yesterday by someone close to the president. "A few hours from the reshuffle, Ségolène Royal assured this Sunday in the program BFM Politics, in partnership with Le Parisien - Today in France, to have been contacted" by someone close to the president ".
And if a source close to the Head of State denied early in the afternoon, the former presidential candidate tells the Parisian his version of the facts, SMS in support. According to our information, it was in fact via a text message from Jean-Yves Le Drian that she was contacted at 12:44 pm on Saturday: "Ségo, can I talk to you?". She replied at 12.57 pm: "Yes of course". There followed a telephone exchange between the two political leaders during which she assured him that entering government would "make sense only for a more social, more ecological, more democratic policy. "
At the end of the afternoon, still on Saturday, Ségolène Royal sent a message herself to the President of the Republic. "I received a call from Jean-Yves to propose a contact with you. You can call me when you want. Ségolène, ”she wrote to him.
According to our information, the Elysée, after denying a direct link, recognizes this Sunday afternoon "contacts with members of the majority but not with the president or his close associates. The president has respect and consideration for Ségolène Royal. "If Elysée councilors deny it, I don't hold it against them." They are not necessarily aware! ", Concludes Ségolène Royal.
This noon on BFMTV, the former presidential candidate had explained to have been contacted in the context of the reshuffle and to have set its conditions. "I was very kind, very respectful, we are facing a very serious economic crisis, we know who I am, what I said, we know my convictions", she reported on the set. "If I can be useful to my country why not, but […] it only makes sense if it is to have the means to conduct a more social, more ecological and more democratic policy," she said. insisted, stressing that he did not want to "betray (his) commitments".
Reshuffle: Ségolène Royal says she was "called by someone close to the President of the Republic" pic.twitter.com/gbdLCHobPg
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) July 5, 2020The new Prime Minister Jean Castex and Emmanuel Macron are currently leading the last negotiations to form the government. In the meantime, the current ministers and the potential entrants are anxious or biting their brakes. Assembly President Richard Ferrand said on Sunday that the government would probably be announced "Monday morning".
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Minister of the Environment under François Hollande, Ségolène Royal dreamed of returning to government after the election of Emmanuel Macron. But despite several changes, she never had a job.
However, she was appointed in September 2017 to the position of pole ambassador. But Ségolène Royal was removed from office last January after increasing the number of outings against the government. She had received a little before a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reminding her of her duty of reserve and asking her to stop her critics, on pain of being dismissed from this function she held since 2017 on appointment of Emmanuel Macron .